A Calendar, enumerating Sacred Days and Seasons This ch. and the next shew more of the influence of P than any earlier part of the -Law of Holiness." In fact, P is the source of more than half the verses in 23. In analysing the contents, we find a collection of independent laws introduced severally... [ Continue Reading ]
If we pass from -say unto them" (Leviticus 23:2) to -These are," etc. (Leviticus 23:4), we perceive that the intermediate words have the air of an insertion by a reviser, writing in the spirit of P, and desiring to attain completeness by including the weekly sabbath with its -holy convocation." This... [ Continue Reading ]
_Feasts of the Passover and Unleavened Bread_(5 8) The law in detail is set forth Exodus 12, and is accordingly here assumed as known, and only the chief regulations are mentioned. 5. _the first month_ corresponding to the latter part of March with the former part of April. Here, as elsewhere, P de... [ Continue Reading ]
_unleavened bread_ For details, see Exodus 12:15 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_servile work_ The expression (see R.V. mg. and introd. note to ch.) is used in reference to the three great festivals and that of the New Year, and implies a less strict abstinence from labour than was demanded by the corresponding rule for the sabbath (Leviticus 23:3) and the Day of Atonement (Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
_an offering made by fire_ The details of this offering are given in Numbers 28:2 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_An offering of firstfruits_(H)... [ Continue Reading ]
The ritual here set forth has no parallel elsewhere in the Pentateuch. Deuteronomy 26:2 prescribes that -the first of all the fruit of the ground" shall be offered, but gives no direction as to any particular day. In Deuteronomy 16:9-10 the nature of the offering is left undetermined, and the date i... [ Continue Reading ]
of an ephah] approximately a bushel. The word does not appear in MT., the sense of the context supplying it. _an hin_ Approximately 1½ gallons.... [ Continue Reading ]
For -parched corn" and -fresh ears," see on Leviticus 2:14-16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the morrow after the sabbath_ See on Leviticus 23:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Feast of Weeks (mainly H). Cp. Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10. The name is taken from the seven weeks, which, as the average duration of harvest time, separated this feast from that of unleavened bread.... [ Continue Reading ]
_wave loaves_ See Appendix IV, pp. 183 ff. _tenth parts_ A.V. -tenth deals," and so in Leviticus 23:13. With the exception of these _vv._the expression is peculiar to P, denoting the measure of fine flour used in a Meal-Offering. For the word -deals" see on Leviticus 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
This _v._, unlike the rest of the section, has the characteristics of the Priestly Code. See above.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when … harvest_ Probably inserted here from Leviticus 19:9 (also H), with which it is verbally identical.... [ Continue Reading ]
This has been called the Festival of the New Year. It is probable that the first day of the 7th month was associated with the reckoning of the commencement of a year (see further on Leviticus 25:9). There was evidently more than one mode of dating. In fact the Mishna (Tal. Bab. _Rôsh Hashânâh_, fol.... [ Continue Reading ]
Three festivals, the Blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles (P).... [ Continue Reading ]
_blowing of trumpets_ See on Leviticus 23:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Day of Atonement (P). See on ch. 16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_from even unto even_ i.e. from sunset to sunset, according to the Jewish mode of reckoning the day.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Feast of Tabernacles (P). Cp. Numbers 29:7-11; Deuteronomy 16:13-15; Ezra 3:4; Deuteronomy 31:10 f. directs that in the sabbatical year the Law should be publicly read at this Feast, the carrying out of which regulation is recorded in Nehemiah 8:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a solemn assembly_ R.V. mg. _closing festival_. The Heb. word (- _ăẓéreth_) does not in itself involve the idea of solemnity. It is used of the closing day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Deuteronomy 16:8), and (as here) in Numbers 29:35 (P); Nehemiah 8:18, of the extra day following the seven da... [ Continue Reading ]
_Subscription to the whole_(see on Leviticus 23:2) We may note that in the summary given in these _vv._there is no mention of the Sin-Offering prescribed in Numbers 28:15; Numbers 28:22; Numbers 28:30; Numbers 29:5, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
_beside the sabbaths of the Lord_ See on Leviticus 23:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. notes.... [ Continue Reading ]
_An Appendix, dealing with the Feast of Booths_(mainly H)... [ Continue Reading ]
_fruit of goodly trees_ i.e. fruit of goodly (ornamental, beautiful) trees, or goodly tree fruit (so Dillm.). _boughs of thick trees_ According to Onkelos, myrtle branches, but the expression may have a more general signification. It has been doubted whether this various material was to be used for... [ Continue Reading ]
Conclusion supplied by P.... [ Continue Reading ]